Friday, October 31, 2003

When Xiao Rong started China's seminal punk band Brain Failure, he was a teenager. That was years ago, when nobody had ever seen anything like the mohawk and the studded-leather belt Xiao sported around Beijing. Living on American fast food and pirated CDs, Xiao was one of the first Chinese youth to write punk lyrics with a blatantly political message.

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While in the United States, Hang on the Box will play with seminal Japanese girl punks Shonen Knife at the Knitting Factory in New York on Oct. 26.